Still working through my thoughts on Mastodon. Here's a longer piece on abuse controls (which are instance-based, naturally) from the creator: blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/07/cage-t
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I googled for "mastodon political outrage machine",
here's an example of a discussion on HN two weeks ago
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=176948
I think the comment about "block and divide; this avoids outrage" is good.
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Don't forget instance-specific moderator tools + abuse controls. So that makes them more like subreddits than a global char-limited forum.
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I think "mastodon > twitter, because outrage machine" makes sense in terms of "less abusive to users".
Prob'ly allows "good walled garden" for good discussion, too.
But the "outrage machine" isn't b/c of tech itself, per se.